Herman Cain: Occupy Wall Street Protesters Should 'Go Home And Get A Job And A Life'

Republican presidential hopeful Herman Cain shot down the efforts of the Occupy Wall Street protesters Thursday, telling them to "go home and get a job and a life" while speaking to a crowd in Arkansas.

The former CEO of Godfather's Pizza made the comments in response to more than a dozen Occupy protesters who were gathered outside the event, according to the Tolbert Report. "Nobody knows what their cause is," Cain said before telling the activists to go home.

Cain also had harsh words for the left in general during the campaign stop, saying "the American dream has been hijacked" by liberals, "but we can take it back."

This isn't the first time Cain has blasted the Occupy protests. In a Wall Street Journal interview from early October, Cain said the protesters who don't have jobs have no one to blame but themselves:

"I don't have facts to back this up, but I happen to believe that these demonstrations are planned and orchestrated to distract from the failed policies of the Obama administration. Don't blame Wall Street, don't blame the big banks, if you don't have a job and you're not rich, blame yourself! ... It is not a person's fault if they succeeded, it is a person's fault if they failed."

Cain -- who has often noted his own early days of poverty, saying "I was 'po' before I was 'poor'" -- now has an estimated net worth of somewhere between $2.9 million and $6.8 million, according to recently certified financial disclosure forms.

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Comments

[Ever-More]

09:08 AM on 11/12/2011

Herman Cain has said to the protesters of the Occupy Wall Street Movement: "Go Home And Get A Job And A Life." The job that I'm sure Herman Cain most certainly doesn't want them to get is that of a union organizer. There is training available for this and it's entry salary is about $30,000 a year. And it has benefits like health insurance.

Just think of how much better President Barack Obama would be if in addition to his several years as community organizer, he had several years as a union organizer.

A union organizer is just as American as a banker.

How change making would it be if 50,000 of the protesters in the occupy Wall Street Movement became union organizers.

[carbinos]

06:26 PM on 11/04/2011

Hey pizza boy.. Bring the jobs back from mexico and china and i will get a job !

[oneofthe99percnt]

01:17 PM on 11/04/2011

I say Occupy Huff Post and make your voice heard! We are the 99% : )

[oneofthe99percnt]

01:13 PM on 11/04/2011

I think Herman Cain should go home and get some help for his sex addiction.

[tssgenius]

07:21 PM on 11/03/2011

I dont want to go home and get a job, I want Cains Job. Where do I apply to Run Godfathers? I love pizza, and I know this, I would not be number 9?! How much did they peel away and give him when he stepped down? To run godfathers to Presidential Canidate?! Elizebeth Hasslebeck said today on the View, and she is a Publican true and true, that Cain is just someone they are throwing out there for all of this to come out. So when Rommney wins the nomination, people will then be to late to focus on him as Cain got it all. So, Herman, who drove Godfathers to a near Caseys Carry Out in the list of top pizza chain levels, what is that, an apple that you are the scape goat, or an orange so you can take one for the team?

[tincup2005]

06:26 PM on 11/03/2011

Cain is clearly not Able.

[bran0217]

04:50 PM on 11/03/2011

Herman Cain should stay home, he forgot all the movements to free people ,As he seems to have forgotten Freedom of speech ,Which is a right of All Americans, If it wasn't for protest even he wouldn't be rich ,he would have stayed in his place as the south refused to let a man of color have any rights, His actions with these woman prove what type of man he would be as President ,

[Harh]

12:22 PM on 11/03/2011

Actually I am glad Herman made that comment, he is showing his true colors and with this statement he is sure to loose thousands of votes.

I read that that the unemployment among professionals is only 4% so part of the solution is clear, educate.

[odoey]

11:11 PM on 11/01/2011

Thousands of people dissatisfied with the "status qou" and Mr. Cain turns a deaf ear, YEP he's a
"self-rightous Republican politician". The GOP is definately not, a compassionate political party!

[ladybugg22]

05:17 PM on 11/01/2011

Maybe if some of the OWS protestors had the benefit of some Coco cola stock and some friends of their dad in high places to back them (as did Mr. Cain) they might be able to get a job and get a life.

[ljeann]

04:29 PM on 11/01/2011

Well, none of you are "part of the solution."

Let's see, Herman Cain is "Mr. Federal; Reserve"—he isn't going to "see" a problem with the banking sector. I wonder where his "monetary assets" came from?

“Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney expressed an unsympathetic view of the Occupy Wall Street movement. ‘I think it's dangerous, this class warfare,’ he said. Romney declined to comment further when asked about the protests by ABC. His response? ‘I'm just trying to get myself to occupy the White House.’ During a campaign stop in New Hampshire Oct. 10 Romney was a bit more sympathetic. ‘I worry about the 99 percent in America,’ he said, later adding, ‘I understand how those people feel.’”

OK, so Romney understands how “anyone feel[s]?” His record doesn’t show it: a) Inconsistent on core values with respect to Abortion, b) Inconsistent on core values with respect to Marriage Rights, c) Consistent on indifference to the ”human factor” in making business decisions—(lets it come out in the wash!), d) Consistent on core value that “taxation” by government is the solution to everything, and e) Is really, really clear that he “[Just wants to]…occupy the White House!” Who cares if Romney “analyzes the data!” He has an abominable algorithm! Definitely clueless as to how to “fix” the financial sector!

Would you all please just go home and stop wasting campaign dollars, as well as the public’s time, on your vacuous campaign drivel?

[ThePelton]

01:34 PM on 11/03/2011

An ignored deficit couldn't resort to violence, whereas 25 million ignored workers could.

[Missy Vague]

03:22 PM on 11/01/2011

they are not going home, Mr. Cain. They do not appreciate that we bailed out the banks, just so they could buy up smaller banks, get stingy on interest rates and pay themselves bonuses, courtesy of the taxpayer. Which business person gets bailed out and which one doesn't? All of you: Bush, Obama, McCain, Hillary, and yourself, are wrong about those bailouts and now you are going to live with the Occupiers.

RON PAUL for President !

[ThePelton]

01:36 PM on 11/03/2011

You forgot to mention the institution that used TARP money for an executive vacation at a spa.

[Mark Cox]

02:08 AM on 11/01/2011

Dear Herman Cain:
Why should anyone believe you did not sexually harass the two women, when you don't believe that gay people do not choose to be gay? Karma

[ThePelton]

01:38 PM on 11/03/2011

Last I heard, it was now three women.

[oneofthe99percnt]

01:15 PM on 11/04/2011

3 we know of, so how many more are there who haven't come forward?

[zippythedude]

10:47 PM on 10/31/2011

The only jobs I am aware of that are readily available involve screws, and are offered by the government.

[ThePelton]

01:38 PM on 11/03/2011

You could join the military if you're fit enough, but there's a chance you might get shot at or blown up.

[Karama]

09:15 PM on 10/30/2011

How long do the people want to protest? It looks so cold and uncomfortable. What do their leaders plan to do? Have they even chosen their leaders?